Wave
Rider is hosted by the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education.
Its purpose is to identify all distance education classes offered by Rhode
Island institutions of higher education. The initial project will consist
of hyper-links to all web and e-mail based courses offered by all participating
institutions in Rhode Island. Students benefit from having one location to
view all distance education classes offered. The user can also link to a brief
description of each class and then be directed to a page that provides registration
information from the respective institution.

If
the site proves to be a success, the information provided will be expanded
to include information beneficial to students and resources to assist faculty
in preparing distance education classes. This will hopefully create a collaborative
atmosphere for new and innovative ways of offering distance education courses
(e.g. team teaching).